The Phillies outrighted right-hander Sean O’Sullivan after last night’s game, the club announced. His roster spot will go to fellow righty Hector Neris.
O’Sullivan, 27, has given up exactly six earned runs in each of his last three starts, including last night’s, thus precipitating the move. He owns a 6.08 earned run mark on the year, with 4.4 K/9 against 2.5 BB/9 over 71 innings.
Of course, O’Sullivan was largely being utilized with the hope that he’d absorb some innings while providing acceptable results. Over parts of six big league seasons, he’s now pitched 302 1/3 innings with a 5.95 ERA. The Philadelphia staff has been collectively terrible, allowing a full third of a run more per regulation ballgame than the next-poorest staff.
The fact that O’Sullivan was even on the Phillies is a disgrace
He sure looked terrible against the Brewers.
11-23 with an era of 6 in his major league career, including being 1-7 with an era of OVER 6 for the phillies. Nothing more needs to be said
I think O’Sullivan has been,awesome! Hes made a major league living with not even marginal talent
O’Sullivan was brought in to sop up some innings not produce good results. It is better for a rebuilding team to be dreadful than mediocre. Right now the Phillies are in first place in the race for the first overall 2016 draft pick. That is exactly where they should be.
Disgrace is actually an understatement. As a Phillies fan, It was so demotivating seeing his name in the line-up. You knew it was time to cut him loose when his ERA tied Porcella’s and was approaching Loshe and Masterson level. Yikes!
This is literally the worst Phillies team that I can remember and we are talking about a franchise that leads all professional sports in losses. Even the Washington Generals feel bad for this team. As Dean Wormer said, “bad, old and overpaid is no way to go through life son.” or something like that.
The writing on the wall is that Aaron Nola is really the only other option the Phillies have, unless they want to fast track Jerome Williams’ rehabit assignment.
ot: Commenting looks better, just I would really enjoy a way to refresh comments without having to actually refresh the page, kinda of Disqus had it, along with a way to see the replies to my comments without having to actually go back, kinda how Disqus has it
The notification is my,biggest request
When you open a comment box, there’s an option called “manage subscriptions.” That should allow you to receive notifications of replies. As above, please advise if it’s not working.
Jeff, has this been refurbished?..after the reboot it was sending me EVERY comment, and not just replies to my own. After Tim’s initial post on the switch I received over 100 emails. I’ll try again.
I’m happy we can up and down vote. Can actually reply to comments via phone too. Just wish it allowed uppercase letters for your name when I had signed up.
There should be something in the upper right corner showing that you’re logged in, you can go there and change the display name.
Thanks!
There is no point in starting the clock. Just run out the latest teams DFA until September.
The Phillies are going to be in the same situation next year. They don’t have very much impact talent at the top of the farm.
Ben Lively is a back-end starter, Eflin, according to Jim Salisbury could be better than Nola and then you have Aaron Alterr. Nothing else is on its way.
Nola will be here by September 2nd.
There is a point, though, if he’s learned what he’s going to learn in Triple-A. The Phillies can’t hold him down until they’re prepared to contend again, because that probably won’t happen until 2017-18. Sure they could hold him in Triple-A until late April 2016, but the doesn’t necessarily benefit Nola, and they need to sell to the fans that there’s some semblance of hope for the future. Marketing around Nola and Franco is a good start.
It should be refreshing live now. Let us know if that’s not happening. Seems to be working for me, at least with my own comments.
Buchanan I think may be ready to come back…
Buch isn’t hurt and hes starting tonight for AAA.
God how much I would love to:
DFA/Option/Trade Dom Brown then call up Brian Bogusevic
Trade Ben Revere then recall Aaron Altherr
DFA Kevin Corriea and recall Buchanan
Trade Cole Hamels and call up Aaron Nola
Trade Frenchy and call up Jordan Danks
DFA/Trade Howard and call up Brock Stassi
Sad, I thought maybe this was his breakout season. The season he’d show he was clearly beyond a AA talent where he’d define himself as AAA to stay.